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If someone provide 1 or more cent discount to our customers who put up a link on their site, and wanted to actually show the referral discount in their shopping cart for that customer, can Google see that and realize they are providing a discount for a link?
Can Google see what's displayed in our their web application - like in the upload, shopping cart and complete transaction pages?
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Google bot can read any URL that is viewable by itself. Try this: copy the URL of the complete transaction page and paste it in fresh broweser where your website is not cached/cookied there. If you can see the page - So google can!
For your "discount for a link" concern - I need to know more details.
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